Miami Hurricane, November 11, 1994

              ACCENT
■ Matt Gentile was chosen as Mr. UM following Wednesday's competition.
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FOOTBALL
■ There wil be no happy t lomecoming for Rueben Brown and the Pitt Panthers who must face the Miami Hurricanes Saturday in thfi Orange Bowl.
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INSIDE
NEWS: Table Top Canes win their table-top football championship by default. Page 2
OPINION: Double-major regulations for the School of Communication are ridiculous. Page 4
VOLUME 72, NUMBER 21
CORAL GABLES, FLA.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 1994
CUBAN PAPERS DONATED TO RICHTER LIBRARY
Mari Paz Martinez Nieto, president and founder of the Association for International Peace (ASOPAZCO), has donated to archives of its Madrid offices to the Cuban Collections Department of the Otto G. Richter Library.
The archives, which contain 14 years of documents, are a collection of first-hand accounts from Cuban prisoners detailing the poor conditions of the Cuban prisons.
The collection contains a comprehensive amount of newspaper clippings which show the importance of the Cuban human rights issue throughout the world.
In addition to the videos and photographs smuggled out of Cuban prisons, the collection contains all the information shared by the Madrid office and the United Nations’ Human Rights Commission for the last six years.
ASOPAZCO closed their Madrid offices in October 1993 to move to the UN’s Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland. The new UM collection may be expanded as ASOPAZCO receives more materials from human rights activists.
LEADERSHIP PROGRAM ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS
The Leadership Certificate Program is accepting nominations for Spring 1995. The program is designed to provide students with opportunities to examine and explore various dimensions of leadership from an individual and group perspective.
Courses offered for the spring semester are: “Emerging Leaders,” designed to help students explore the personal dimensions of leadership; “Leaders Leading Leaders,” which teaches students facilitation skills; and “Reflections on Leadership,” which allows seniors to share their leadership experiences with other students.
Other courses are “Women and Leadership” and “Men and Leadership,” which explore the gender stereotypes associated with both genders, and the “Volunteer Certificate Program,” which explores service-related topics.
Nomination forms are available in the Department of Orientation ana Leadership Programs, UC 209. They need to be returned by Nov. 14.
“If you’ve never been in a leadership position before and are not sure what group you want to participate in, it s a great way to acquire some skills and get a sampling of what leadership is all about,” said Steve Sutton, director of Student Activities, who will be teaching the “Emerging Leaders” class in the spring.
FACE THE FACTS
Following are the average
travel expenses for college over the past five years.
$71
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SOURCE: UM Fact Book
JEFFREY M BROOKS/ Graphics Edito
Security studied after sexual assault
By PAMELA WILFINGER
News Editor
UM officials are planning to review campus security after a female student was sexually assaulted in her dorm room Sunday afternoon.
William Butler, vice president for Student Affairs, said he has already contacted two independent consulting firms to discuss making the campus safer.
“Most students on the campus, just like I do, try to balance safety...and openness, and not developing a fortress-like atmosphere where everybody is under lock and key,” Butler said.
All of the resident assistants will meet with their floors to discuss the incident.
Robert Redick, director of the Department of Residence Halls, said the RAs are being instructed of a five-part plan.
“One, to inform people that the crime occurred. Two is to remind people the dangers of people who tailgate through the doors. Three, to keep your doors locked. Foul, leport strangers for other’s safety. And fifth,...to get suggestions on how to improve security in the living areas,” Redick said.
“We want to take whatever steps that we can to make our campus even more difficult for incidents of this type,” Butler said.
The floor meetings will be completed by the end of next week.
At 3:30 p.m. Sunday, the student left the door of her
MacDonald Tower room unlocked while ■'he went to take a shower.
In her absence, a stranger opened her door,* walked into her room, and waited for her to return.
With a pellet gun in hand, Marcus Tayloi, ?6, allegedly ordered her to fill two bags full of electronics and jewelry.
Then, he forced her to take off her clothes, and lie on the bed so he could perform oral sex on her.
“Let me say how sorry I am for the student, the young lady. She’s okay. She’s dong real fine. But I have met with her alone with Dean [William] Sandler and her mother and she’s making good progress,” Butler said.
After Taylor left, the student went down to the front desk to
get help and make a report.
The Department of Public Safety dispatched police officers to the University Metro-Rail station, with the victim’s description of her attacker.
“They [the officers] literally caught him at the Metro-Rail station 30 seconds before the northbound train arrived,” said Captain Henry Christensen of Public Safety.
Taylor, who is currently being held at Dade County Jail without bond, was charged with armed sexual battery, armed robbery, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, possession of a firearm on school grounds, carrying a concealed firarm and grand theft.
Set. Mitch Fry, director of Media Relations and Crime
Prevention at Coral Gables Police Department, said Taylor admitted to police that he gained into the dorm by telling other studemts he was there to buy drugs from a friend.
“He said he gets in all the time. That students just let him in,” Fry said.
A counselor was sent to the student immediately after she reported the incident. She was then take to the Rape Crisis Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Christensen said.
“At this point, she’s attending classes. She’s a very strong person and she intends to continue on her life as normal,” Butler said. “We’ve enjoyed a safe cam-us. We’ve enjoyed our location ere in Coral Gables, where people do feel safe on the campus, in general.”
SEAN HEMMERLE / Photo Editor
DANCE TO THE MUSIC: Maria Guzman of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority strikes a pose as part of Organized Cheer Monday night on the UC patio.
Parking
appeals
bill
shelved
By MABELIIE BUI
Hurricane Staff Writer
A Student Government bill that would have proposed hearings for all parking ticket appeals was withdrawn after a 30-minute debate during the weekly SG Senate meeting Wednesday afternoon.
The bill would have required the Parking Appeals Board to listen to verbal defenses by people appealing parking tickets. It would have given student three months to file with the board.
Leonard Feuer, SG senator for Campus Sports and Recreation, created the bill based on the U.S. and Florida constitutions, where people have the right to face their accusers and present their defense in person.
“Students are being denied their right to due process by not being allowed to have their day in court,” said Feuer.
"What if they go out of town? What if their father dies? What if I kill them?”
Chiles wins reelection bid
With 65 percent of eligible voters going to the polls on Tuesday, the Florida electorate decided to elect Democrat Lawton Chiles to a second term as Governor.
Chiles narrowly defeated Republican candidate Jeb Bush with 51 percent, or 2,050,390 votes, compared to Bush’s 49 percent, or 1,948,852 votes.
“This campaign is different from any campaign I can ever remember,” Chiles said. “We could have lost this race, we could have lost it easily. Then something happened [and] a lot of you said, ‘We’re not going to let tnis happen.’”
Speaking Tuesday night at the Crowne Plaza in Miami, Bush conceded his defeat and revealed his disappointment at losing.
“I don’t like losing,” Bush said. “I don’t know what I’m going to do. But I know one thing, I’m going to rest for a while.”
Making his victory speech from Tampa, Chiles promised to focus his attention on the Florida’s future and certain “unfinished business” in Tallahassee.
Calling Florida’s tax code “unfair,” Chiles said that special interests are finding loop-holes to evade taxes that could go to pay for efforts to improve the state education system or assist in criminal justice programs.
____________________________________________________ THE AGONY OF DEFEAT: Republican Gubernatorial
See ELECTIONS, page 3 shows his disappointment after he conceded to Lawton Chiles on Tuesday.
Bush loses by slim margin
By KEVIN D. FERNANDEZ
Assistant News Editor
Leonard Feuer SG senator
He said that fining people for parking violations amounted to excessive punishment and was illegally depriving people of property.
Bianca Roig, a member of the Parking Appeals Board, spoke to the Senate about the logistical problems of the bill.
Roig said the eight-member board meets once a week and literally has to review thousands of appeals.
“I think the bill, as it was written, wouldn’t give the board enough time to go through all the appeals,” Roig said.
When an amendment was proposed giving students a month to file for a hearing and giving the Parking Appeals Board six weeks to decide, Feuer objected, saying it was too little time for students.
“What if they go out of town? What if their father dies? What if I kill them?,” Feuer said.
The amendment was accepted by the Senate in a 14-6-2 vote.
SG president Adam August proposed that the bill be scrapped and retooled so that it was a mandate asking for Ronald Hill, director of Parking Services, to discuss the parking situation with SG and evaluate the current system.